Shared Hosting - merits and demerits

With the advent of time, different types of web hosting emerged in the market that can basically be divided into various categories as below.

You can get hosting, both free and paid, Linux / Unix-based and Windows-based (other which are inferior in terms of popularity), shared, dedicated and VPS. However, each of this type of hosting has its merits and demerits.

But the main objective of this article is to explain you about the prevailing merits and demerits of shared hosting.

However, before the user must understand what the term "shared hosting".

Shared hosting is a type of hosting where a host provides space for a user on his / her server, he / she has to share with other clients' websites. Same software and operating system is applied to all websites. With this type of hosting, however, a user may have more advantages as compare free web hosting.

We can again divide the shared web hosting in two categories:

Free Shared Hosting:

It 's considered an ideal choice for someone looking for some new concepts and is not interested in paying money for the hosting fee. This type of website hosting provides you everything you need to increase his / her site. However, you can enjoy excellent facilities for his / her site. Site receives limited amount of bandwidth and disk space. This type of hosting will not guarantee user with MySQL, PHP support. Web statistics will be even worse conditions.

Paid Shared Hosting:

This will provide all the essential features which free shared hosting seldom provide, these include e-mail, MySQL, PHP and support. You can use it if he / she wants to host small business web site, an intermediary or large professional site but does not require more space than the entire server. Via shared hosting you can get a good chance to host his / her site of an influential, well administrated server at an affordable price per month.

Shared hosting is very popular among the webmasters who are beginners, because of providing a reliable service for the web user, even those without technical skills.

As now you must have understood what is shared hosting, we can get to the merits and demerits of shared hosting:

Features for:

A. Low Cost

B. Server Administration Belle

C. Multiply e-mail, MySQL, PHP support

Users do not have special knowledge in website and server administration can accomplish much good.

Features in against:

A. Low security

B. resource limitation - same memory, CPU and hard drive is used by all. The user is forced to use only software that comes with the / a particular hosting company, and similarly you can not install / own server.

Other restrictions may be due to the company's security policies.

The best part is that shared hosting does not have to worry about possible server problems for service support for this hosting company is ready to solve all problems. So while selecting a shared hosting you should carefully examine the quality of the company's support, the better the quality of support - would be the best conditions for the site.

Even with shared hosting you can put multiple sites in adjacent parts of the server.

So, finally after knowing all the pros and cons that you decide what is best suited for his needs as .......